Privacy

Privacy

The guide works without cookies or sign-up. The notebook keeps only what you type into it.

Reading the guide

Pages of the guide and the Style Finder store nothing about you. Style Finder answers travel in the page address and are not saved. The web server keeps standard access logs (address, time, page, browser) for security and fault-finding; they are not used to track anyone. There are no analytics services and no advertising or tracking cookies. The only outside requests are for the adengine.us banner on the guide’s public pages, described under Advertising; it also counts one page view per page as a daily total. Notebooks and the field sheet load nothing from other sites.

Advertising

The home page, Features, Drawings, Styles, the Style Finder form, Pricing and About show one banner ad from AdEngine (adengine.us), the small ad network run by WeldonPC, the company behind this site. For now the ads are for WeldonPC’s own services. Notebooks, the notebook form, Style Finder results, the field sheet, this page and the terms show no ad.

To show an ad, your browser loads a script from adengine.us, asks it for one banner, loads the banner image, and reports once that the page was viewed and once that the banner was shown. Like any website, adengine.us receives your IP address, your browser type and the address of this site with those requests.

• No cookies, no profile. AdEngine sets no cookies, gives you no ID and does not track you from site to site.
• How your IP address is used. adengine.us looks up the approximate city for your IP address in a location database kept on its own server (nothing is sent to anyone else), so that ads meant for one area are shown only there. It also uses the address to count each ad view or click only once and to leave out robots and WeldonPC’s own office traffic. The address is not stored with the counts; the temporary entries made from it expire within six hours and are cleared from the server within two days.
• What is kept. Daily totals only: page views for this site, and views and clicks for each ad. The adengine.us web server also keeps a standard access log (IP address, time, address requested, referring site, browser) for security; it is deleted on a rolling schedule.
• Clicking an ad passes through adengine.us, which counts the click, and then opens the advertiser’s site, which has its own privacy policy.
• Nothing about you is sold or shared.

The notebook

• A notebook has no account, name or email. Its private address contains a random key; the site stores only a one-way hash of that key, so it cannot rebuild your address. Lose the address and the notebook cannot be recovered.
• Because the key is part of the address, the full notebook address also appears in your browser history and in the web server's standard access logs (seen only by the operator). Anyone who has the address can open the notebook, so keep it like a password and do not post it publicly.
• It stores what you enter for each visit: the building as you name it, the town, the date, a style, the features you ticked and your notes. Please do not enter people's names or anything about children.
• The site never asks or records anyone's religion.
• Forms set one security cookie (to stop forged submissions); it holds no personal data.
• You can delete a visit, or the whole notebook, at any time from the notebook. Deletion is immediate.
• Notebooks that are not opened for 400 days are deleted automatically.
• Database backups are taken nightly and kept for 14 days; copies taken when the site is updated are kept longer in operator-only storage. A deleted notebook can remain in those copies until they are replaced or removed.

Payments

Payments are not switched on yet (free during preview). When they are, PayPal will handle them; this site will receive only a payment reference and status, never card details.

Questions: through weldonpc.com/contact.

Last updated 17 October 2026 (the Advertising section was added).